This week Auxerre finally has its long-awaited home game, where the team will face the powerful Monaco team. Since Takumi Minamino, the main player of the Monaco team, has a national team match this week, there is a big doubt whether he can play in this game. Auxerre has lost two consecutive away games, so the team also needs a victory to boost its momentum.

Current situation：

Adi Hutter's men failed to make it three wins from three just before the international break, while their hosts were condemned to a second straight loss in the top flight two weekends ago.Monaco's charges could be forgiven for having one eye elsewhere this weekend, as their trip to Auxerre comes just five days before a mouthwatering Champions League opener against Barcelona, who visit the Stade Louis II on September 19.

However, Hutter's men have some domestic wrongs to right before the midweek matchup, as Les Monegasques were ostensibly home and hosed against Lens on September 1 thanks to Denis Zakaria's 84th-minute header, but Przemyslaw Frankowski rescued a point for Les Sang et Or from the spot in added time.

Had Zakaria not gone from hero to zero by handballing inside the box, Monaco would have been jostling for top spot with Paris Saint-Germain on nine points right now; instead, Hutter's men are in fourth position with seven to their name.

Frankowski's last-gasp spot kick two weekends ago snapped a five-game winning sequence for Monaco in the top flight, as well as their four-match streak of successive clean sheets, but optimism of a quick return to winning ways should be rife within the visitors' squad.

Indeed, Les Monegasques have come out on the winning side in seven of their last eight Ligue 1 away matches, while they have scored at least twice in 11 of their last 12 top-flight showdowns on the road, including each of their last five.

Injuries:

Auxerre

14 (Left back) Gideon Mensah

23 (right back) Hewell red card and suspension

6 (Central Defender) Saad Aguzu foot injury

21 (right midfielder) Reise Koulibaly cruciate ligament injury

Monaco

(Goalkeeper) Radoslav Magicchi

starting lineup

Auxerre possible starting lineup:

GK:16-Leon;

DF:23-Joly, 4-Osho,3- Jubal, 26-Akpa;

MF: 97-Raveloson, 42-Owusu, 10-Perrin,

FM:25-Traore, 17-Sinayoko,9- Bair

Monaco possible starting lineup:

GK:16-Kohn;

DF:20-Vanderson, 13-Singo, 17-Kehrer, 4-Henrique; 6-Magassa, 88-Zakaria;

MF:7-Minamino, 18-Akliouche, 11-Ben Seghir;

FM:9-Embolo